> > From: Christopher Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/02/09 Wed PM 10:46:46 GMT > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Re: Someone on the list has a virus > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:13:18PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Just got an email with a virus sent to me. Because these things > > automatically forge their headers there's no way of knowing who it came > > from but the "From" line had one PDML member, > > I noticed that also shortly after my first post to PDML, I started to > get a lot of spam bounces to my virtual domain but prefixed with a random > recipient. I've no idea if this is a mere coincidence or a virus which > sends mortgage spam. Could we have an e-mail harvester as a subscriber? > I'm running a fairly tightly configured mail server under Linux, and > after a check through the system logs, I'm strongly doubting I am the > originator.
I strongly suspect that the eamils are harvested from the mail archive, from before they were obscured. I am subscribed twice. Once, nomail, from work and once, normally, from home. The work account was there before obscuring, the home account after. Guess which one gets loads of spam and viruses? mike ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com - virus-checked by McAfee - visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
